The Penn's Grove record., 1887-11-05
NEWS OF THE WEEE.

Inspector Desmond on the 9th
killed f%orty-nine head of cattle on the
farm of James Finnegan; near New
Brunswick. New Jersey. They had
pleuro-pneumonia.
John ReddicK, aged So years, was
crushed to death, on the morning of
the 2Sth, by a car IN the gangway of
No. 4 slope of the Susquehanna Coal
Company, at Nanticoke, Penna. In
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the 2Sth,
Lima Geissert, 26 years old, a maniac,
eluded her keepers, and, after ~saturata
ing her clothing with kerosene, set fire
to it. She wal fatally burned. Moses
We'll, a clothing merchant, of ~Ironton,
Ohio, was found suffocated by gas in
his room at the Howard House In
Washington, on the 2Sth. Charles F.
Meyer, a young lawyer of Washington,
was accidentally shot dead, on the
evening of the 28th, by Jordan N.
Israel, another young lawyer. They
were in Israel's Office examining a pls-
tol on which Israel desired to obtain a
patent, when the weapon was accident
ally discharged. The saloon of Peter
Camp, at Russiaville, Indiana, was
blown up by dynamite on the morning
of the 18th. A stable adjoining was
also wrecked, and a man who slept
there was badly injured.
"A telegram from Joliet, Illinois,
says a telegraph pole, lald across the
Rock Island Railroad, between MenOo-
ka and Morris, early or the morning
of the 28th. wrecked a freight train.
Engineer John Mills and Fireman Orff
were instantly killed, and the head
brakeman was fatally injured. 1t is
thought the miscreants intended to
wreck the. Kansas City express, due
at that polut at APO. The railroad
company has offered a large reward
and detectives are on the ground.
An explosion resulting in the death
of John Buckner and Alfred Stein
brook, and the severe injury of five
others, occurred on the 18th at the
works of the Topliff Carriage Hard
ware Company, in Cleveland, Ohio.
The firm manufactured a patented bow
socket for buggy tops. The sockets
are dipped in Japan varnish and then
dried in ovens. One Of the ovens ex-
Ioded.
haN WI
New York OF the evening Of the 2Stf
said: 'It was reported early this sven
ing that the body of A. T. Stewart hat
been found"
Two freight trains ran into each
other on the Nickel Plate Railroad,
neal Silver Creek, New \ TX, early on
the morning of the Both ult., making
fearful wreck. An engineer named
Clayton, % years of age, and c fireman
named Mastinson were killed. Lewis
p. Phaler, a barber, of Williamsburg,
New York, shot and killed his wife on
the afternoon of the 3Oth ult,, and
then committed suicide. He was only
81 years old. He had been drinking
heavily and was jealous of his wife. In
a runaway accident in Louisville, Ken.
lucky, on the Both ult., Mrs. Geol1e
Baumback was thrown from a CARR.
age and instantly killed, She was on
the way to a cemetery to decorate with
flowers the grave of a recently de-
ceased member Of the family. Her
father, Gales Rueff, was fatally in
jured.
Frederick Wright, a railroad
brakeman, was shot and fatally
wounded by a farmer named Cramer,
near Riverside, West Virginia, on the
goth ult. Wright was there to flag a
train, and Cramer thought he was
going to steal his turnips, which were
planted on the roadside. George II.
Neff, who shot and killed John Guns
cart, lei Hllltown, Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, in September last, was
arrested in Hazlet0n on the 10Th ult.
Neff SAID Gunseart was intimate with
his wife.
w. H. Reynolds. editor of the
Times, at Ashland, Ohio, wa shot and
killed by james Mason, during the
trial of a case before a magistrate al
the country village Of NankIn, on the
Goth ult.
"A large passenger propeller, sup
posed to be the Vernon, of the North
ern Michigan line, was wrecked on the
29th ult. Captain Moran, Of the steam
ship Superior, which arrived at Mil
waukee, on the night of the Goth ult.,
reported that he saw three or four RATS
with men clinging to them. and also a
small boat containing q woman and
three men, although he made an effort
to rescue them the high sea prevented
the rendering of any assistance, the
Superior being herself disabled. The
Vernon had a crew of twenty-five men
and several passengers.
"A slight shock of earthquake was
felt at Pointe de Monts, Quebec, about
4 O'Clock on the morning of the Goth
ult.
Henry E. Lincoln, a prominent
citizen of Brockton, Massachusetts, and
a member of the Legislature, commit
ted suicide OF the 29th ult., by shoot
ing himself. Barbara Broschart, an
aged widow, committed suicide IN New
York, Oh the 10Th ult. She had been
sick for many years.
AT Warsaw, New York, on the
29th ult., "Happy Bob"- Vanbrunt,
murderer of VIII Roy, was sentenced
to be hanged on December 9Th next.
Thomas Wilson, George Williamson
and Nathan Collins, who were tried In
Birmingham, Alabama. for the killing
of Crash" Mosley last June, were
found guilty of murder, on the 10th
ult., and the penalty was adjudged
hanging by the Jury.
Eleven new cases of yellow fever
and n death were reported in Tampa
on the 30Ih ult.
"A telegram from Miamisburg,
Ohio, on the evening of the Both ult.
says: mrs. Gephart put her babe to
sleep in Its crib and went about her
work In an adjoining room. The hus-
band came in half an hour later and
requested him to look after the baby,
whereupon he was horrifed to find
that it had fallen out of the crib and
was hanging head downward between
the wheel and the side of the crib,
strangled TO DEATH"
Maud Cassidy was held in $4,000
bail at Chicago on the 29th ult., on
the charge of having abducted a if-
teen year.old girl who was sent to one |
of the horrible ''dives" at Hurley, |
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